From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #287 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, August 9 2007 Volume 16 : Number 287 Today's Subjects: ----------------- recursive rot13 [David Witzany ] Re: recursive rot13 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: recursive rot13 ["Michael Wells" ] Re: recursive rot13 [kevin ] Re: recursive rot13, i mean: erphefvir ebg13 ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: recursive rot13, i mean: erphefvir ebg13 [Christopher Gross ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V16 #286 ["Bachman, Michael" ] billboard boxed set article [gaseous clay ] from the horse's mouth [gaseous clay ] For the well-to-do Feg ["Eugene Hopstetter Jr." ] Re: from the horse's mouth [Tom Clark ] Re: Oct 16 [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #286 [Rex ] D'oh! (was: Re: billboard boxed set article) [Rex ] Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines [Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: recursive rot13 On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 Sebastian Hagedorn rote: > >- --On 8. August 2007 03:31:20 -0400 Lauren Elizabeth >wrote: > >> naq, vg jbhyq frrz, jr pna hfr vg jura jr jnag gb >> fnl guvatf nobhg >> wrss 2sf jvgubhg uvf xabjvat. >> yvxr v pbhyq pnyy uvz "wrs." > >V unir gb fnl gung "rira" V qvqa'g unir nal gbbyf unaql naq unq gb hfr na >bayvar pbairegre ;-) > >------------------------------ > uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:53:58 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: recursive rot13 - -- David Witzany is rumored to have mumbled on 8. August 2007 12:27:35 -0500 regarding recursive rot13: > uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc V cersre uggc://ebg13.qr/vaqrk.cuc I wonder if there are people who can read ROT13. I suppose it wouldn't be *that* hard to learn. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:03:33 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: recursive rot13 >V unir gb fnl gung "rira" V qvqa'g unir nal gbbyf unaql naq unq gb hfr na >bayvar pbairegre ;-) YBY! 9! Zvpunry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:04:15 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: recursive rot13 >-- David Witzany is rumored to have mumbled on 8. August >2007 12:27:35 -0500 regarding recursive rot13: > >> uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc > >V cersre uggc://ebg13.qr/vaqrk.cuc Cthulhu f'thagn! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:15:32 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: recursive rot13, i mean: erphefvir ebg13 natry vf fbbbb qernzl. (v'z bayl guvaxvat bs puevf naq gelvat gb xrrcvat gur fhowrpg ba ohssl.) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:24:09 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: recursive rot13 Sebastian says: > I wonder if there are people who can read ROT13. I suppose it wouldn't be > *that* hard to learn. just rewire your personal steckerbrett. looks like it's around the parietal lobe. it might require minor surgery. http://members.shaw.ca/hidden-talents/brain/113-map-print.html xo p.s. if only one person** gets this post, it will have been worth it. ** probably sebastian - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:48:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: recursive rot13, i mean: erphefvir ebg13 Sebastian: > I wonder if there are people who can read ROT13. I suppose it wouldn't > be *that* hard to learn. If you read enough rot13-encoded text, you'll inevitably start to pick up a little. I, for example, have learned to recognize "Ohssl" and "Natry".... A few people claim to have learned it deliberately, though *why* one would want to do that is a mystery to me. > natry vf fbbbb qernzl. > > (v'z bayl guvaxvat bs puevf naq gelvat gb xrrcvat gur fhowrpg ba ohssl.) Gunaxf! Ohg ernyyl, abg *rirelguvat* unf gb or nobhg Ohssl. Evtug abj V'z whfg rawblvat gur frafr bs cbjre sebz univat cebibxrq n sybbq bs ebg13 cbfgf gb gur yvfg. - --Chris "Snvgu vf fbbb ubg" the Christer ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:11:39 -0400 From: "Leftenant Reg?" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #286 +++Robyn Hitchcock - *Black Snake Diamond Role/I Often Dream of Trains/Eye*(reissue) [box set] (Yep Roc) Anybody figure out the logic behind these three particular pieces being bundled as such? I mean it's cool and all and I'll buy it as it is indeed TIME for a Robyn box of whatever ...ah, anyway. If it were me, it's not, if it were though ... if the criteria stands as three discs per box release ...I'd do three albums per box, chronologically, maybe w/outtakes and exhumed chestnuts from our leader's vaults, mebbe as bonus fourth disc per ...if there indeed be chestnuts as of yet not exhumed ... and/or vaults even. m ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:44:11 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V16 #286 - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Leftenant Reg? Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:12 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #286 +++Robyn Hitchcock - *Black Snake Diamond Role/I Often Dream of Trains/Eye*(reissue) [box set] (Yep Roc) M wrote: >Anybody figure out the logic behind these three particular pieces being bundled as such? >I mean it's cool and all and I'll buy it as it is indeed TIME for a Robyn box of whatever ...ah, anyway. >If it were me, it's not, if it were though ... if the criteria stands as three discs per box release ...I'd >do three albums per box, chronologically, maybe w/outtakes and exhumed chestnuts from our leader's vaults, >mebbe as bonus fourth disc per ...if there indeed be chestnuts as of yet not exhumed ... and/or vaults even. That would work for me as well. Invisible Hitchcock would thematically fit with IODOT/Eye a lot better than BSDR if Yep Roc was shooting for that vein. I would say that BSDR would match up better with the early Egyptian's Fegmania and EOL thematically. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:49:17 -0400 From: "Leftenant Reg?" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #286 Yeah, "thematically". I can think of better pairings/bundlings. Maybe it's copyrights issues concerning the availability of (or lack thereof) recordings. ? Who owns all that stuff? RH own his own catalog now? Did Rhino *own* the catalog when they released that stuff. ? ...never investigated how the Rhino reissuing works. IODOT and Eye slot in nice together but Black Snake.., y'know...? I have a 8 disc "Instant Robyn" collection I slapped together a few years ago ... lacking of Yep Roc, other latter day labels' releases and Soft Boys. Those are all over the place, mostly the way I want to hear songs go together. Some obvious segues I left intact. Some were toiled over. Some are cobbled together from concert memories, some just happened on the fly and hence *worked*. I dunno, I just don't get that little bundle they're releasing. Then again, why should I anyway. m > That would work for me as well. > > Invisible Hitchcock would thematically fit with IODOT/Eye a lot better > than BSDR if Yep Roc was shooting for that vein. I would say that BSDR > would match up better with the early Egyptian's Fegmania and EOL > thematically. > > Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:06:14 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: billboard boxed set article Hitchcock Looks 'Backwards' With Boxed Set August 08, 2007, 3:45 PM ET Katie Hasty, N.Y. Early recordings and previously unreleased material from Robyn Hitchcock will be packed in the five-disc boxed set "I Wanna Go Backwards," due Oct. 16 via Yep Roc. A compilation of B-sides, demos and alternate takes, many of them previously unreleased, are assembled on the double-disc "While Thatcher Mauled Britain Part 1& 2." The British songwriter's 1981 debut, "Black Snake Diamond Role," 1984's "I Often Dream of Trains" and 1990's "Eye" will also be included in the box with bonus tracks and new liner notes penned by Hitchcock. In addition, "I Wanna Go Backwards" will be made available as an 8-piece vinyl boxed set, while the individual discs will be sold separately as well. Rounding out this round of vault clearing is a digital-only release of 1982's "Groovy Decay," which will be available Dec. 11. In 2008, a second box, tentatively dubbed "Bad Case of History," will sport the three albums Hitchcock recorded with his band the Egyptians plus another odds-and-sods collection, "Dynasty." Hitchcock, 54, has released nearly two-dozen albums over the last 25 years, including his latest "Ole! Tarantula" in 2006. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:15:05 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: from the horse's mouth http://yeproc.com/artist_info.php?artistId=171&page=newsArticle&articleId=4550 Yep Roc begins Robyn Hitchcock reissue series August 8, 2007, 12:00 am A box set of three classics along with never-before-released B-sides will be released October 16, 2007 Yep Roc Records is proud to announce the release of Robyn Hitchcock's I Wanna Go Backwards box set on October 16, 2007. I Wanna Go Backwards encompasses expanded editions of three of Hitchcock's best-loved 80s albums, Black Snake Diamond Role, I Often Dream of Trains and Eye, along with While Thatcher Mauled Britain Part 1 & 2, a newly compiled two-disc collection of b-sides, outtakes and home demo recordings, many of them previously unreleased. All of the individual albums feature bonus tracks and enhanced liner notes, including Hitchcock's personal reminiscences on Black Snake and While Thatcher, an extract from a novel in progress on Trains and several pieces of original poetry on Eye, along with previously unpublished photos and Hitchcock cartoons. In addition to the exclusive CD box set packaging, Yep Roc will also release all three records individually in their expanded, enhanced new editions. I Wanna Go Backwards will also be released as an eight-record vinyl box set version complete with original LP artwork. Additionally, Yep Roc is making another long-out-of-print early Hitchcock album, 1982's Groovy Decay available exclusively as a digital download. About working on the reissue series, Hitchcock states: "Your younger self is always faster and less subtle. I would sing some of the songs differently now, but on the whole they sound fine. As I've said before, age 50 isn't better or worse than age 30 for an artist: you're just leaning in from a different angle." Over the past three decades, Hitchcock has built a large and distinctive body of work that's established him as one of rock's most respected and beloved iconoclasts. The prolific English singer/songwriter/guitarist's vivid surrealist songcraft has won him an uncommonly devoted international fan base, and created an ongoing demand for rare and unreleased Hitchcock material. Meanwhile, many of the artist's most popular and influential albums have fallen out of print and become difficult for fans to obtain, changing hands for hefty sums on the collectors' market. The release of I Wanna Go Backwards coincides with a recent career resurgence during which Hitchcock has released the acclaimed albums Spooked and Ole! Tarantula, and become the subject of the recent Sundance Channel documentary Sex, Food, Death.& Insects. The release of I Wanna Go Backwards offers the definitive retrospective of Robyn Hitchcock's '80s solo output, documenting a crucial period of this one-of-a-kind creative force. The second box, tentatively titled "Bad Case of History," is due early 2008. It will feature all Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians records: "Fegmania," "Gotta Let This Hen Out," "Element of Light" and an alternate/outtake collection called "Dynasty." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:42:17 -0500 From: "Eugene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: For the well-to-do Feg A giant, limited-edition Anglepoise lamp: http://www.anglepoise.com/ shopexd.asp?id=96 It kinda does look like a man with a lightbulb head. Now if only we could get him to play the giant Flying V guitar. In his penthouse full of dwarves. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:20:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: more on the box set From Yep Roc..................... Yep Roc begins Robyn Hitchcock reissue series August 8, 2007, 12:00 am A box set of three classics along with never-before-released B-sides will be released October 16, 2007 Yep Roc Records is proud to announce the release of Robyn Hitchcock's I Wanna Go Backwards box set on October 16, 2007. I Wanna Go Backwards encompasses expanded editions of three of Hitchcock's best-loved 80s albums, Black Snake Diamond Role, I Often Dream of Trains and Eye, along with While Thatcher Mauled Britain Part 1 & 2, a newly compiled two-disc collection of b-sides, outtakes and home demo recordings, many of them previously unreleased. All of the individual albums feature bonus tracks and enhanced liner notes, including Hitchcock's personal reminiscences on Black Snake and While Thatcher, an extract from a novel in progress on Trains and several pieces of original poetry on Eye, along with previously unpublished photos and Hitchcock cartoons. In addition to the exclusive CD box set packaging, Yep Roc will also release all three records individually in their expanded, enhanced new editions. I Wanna Go Backwards will also be released as an eight-record vinyl box set version complete with original LP artwork. Additionally, Yep Roc is making another long-out-of-print early Hitchcock album, 1982's Groovy Decay available exclusively as a digital download. About working on the reissue series, Hitchcock states: "Your younger self is always faster and less subtle. I would sing some of the songs differently now, but on the whole they sound fine. As I've said before, age 50 isn't better or worse than age 30 for an artist: you're just leaning in from a different angle." Over the past three decades, Hitchcock has built a large and distinctive body of work that's established him as one of rock's most respected and beloved iconoclasts. The prolific English singer/songwriter/guitarist's vivid surrealist songcraft has won him an uncommonly devoted international fan base, and created an ongoing demand for rare and unreleased Hitchcock material. Meanwhile, many of the artist's most popular and influential albums have fallen out of print and become difficult for fans to obtain, changing hands for hefty sums on the collectors' market. The release of I Wanna Go Backwards coincides with a recent career resurgence during which Hitchcock has released the acclaimed albums Spooked and Ole! Tarantula, and become the subject of the recent Sundance Channel documentary Sex, Food, Death& Insects. The release of I Wanna Go Backwards offers the definitive retrospective of Robyn Hitchcock's '80s solo output, documenting a crucial period of this one-of-a-kind creative force. The second box, tentatively titled "Bad Case of History," is due early 2008. It will feature all Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians records: "Fegmania," "Gotta Let This Hen Out," "Element of Light" and an alternate/outtake collection called "Dynasty." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:40:42 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: from the horse's mouth On Aug 8, 2007, at 3:15 PM, gaseous clay wrote: > http://yeproc.com/artist_info.php? > artistId=171&page=newsArticle&articleId=4550 > > Yep Roc begins Robyn Hitchcock reissue series > > August 8, 2007, 12:00 am > > A box set of three classics along with never-before-released > B-sides will be released October 16, 2007 I'm erect with anticipation! > I Wanna Go Backwards will also be released as an eight-record vinyl > box set version complete with original LP artwork. I just passed out in Gene Hopstetter's backyard! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:06:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Oct 16 On 8/8/07, kevin wrote: > > >> I like how the massive Robyn reissues are coming out around the > >> same time that the giant Neil Young archive set is supposedly > >> finally going to get its first volume out. > > > >Sure, and Chinese Democracy is going to come out then too. > > Um yeah, 'cause the last I heard the Neil box has been put off till next > year. Again. Well, good. But then again, damn. Not to mention that new album Roxy Music have been hinting at for like the > last five years. > > And there was something about the book JD Salinger's been "working on" for > what, fifty years now? Three words: My Bloody Valentine. Speaking of Kevin Shields and people who can actually get him to do stuff, just opened up a Sam Ash flyer this moring to discover the "J Mascis Signature Jazzmaster"-- http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0255800550 Awfully dorky, but going for way cheaper than yr average new Jazzmaster, so... I dunno. It's just kind of confusing that this exists. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:14:52 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #286 On 8/8/07, Leftenant Reg? wrote: > > > > I dunno, I just don't get that little bundle they're releasing. Then > again, > why should I anyway. I'll bet good money that it IS a chronological boxed set of BSDR through IODOT. There was a press release at some point that said there would be two boxes, one "solo" and one "Egyptians", wasn't there? This would be the "solo" box (dunno how EYE fits in there, though). The lingering question for me is whether or not Yep Roc has really secured the A&M stuff. I hope so... and not just for my sake; that stuff's been too hard to find for too long now... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:17:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: D'oh! (was: Re: billboard boxed set article) On 8/8/07, gaseous clay wrote: > > http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003623140> > > Hitchcock Looks 'Backwards' With Boxed Set > > August 08, 2007, 3:45 PM ET > Katie Hasty, N.Y. > > Early recordings and previously unreleased material from Robyn > Hitchcock will be packed in the five-disc boxed set "I Wanna Go > Backwards," due Oct. 16 via Yep Roc. Or maybe I should read all the list traffic before I bet anything. So where are the missing solo records? With the prawns? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:51:04 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: rqsznaunk > > > > naq, vg jbhyq frrz, jr pna hfr vg jura jr jnag gb > > > > fnl guvatf nobhg > > > > wrss 2sf jvgubhg uvf xabjvat. > > > > yvxr v pbhyq pnyy uvz "wrs." > > > > > > V unir gb fnl gung "rira" V qvqa'g unir nal gbbyf unaql naq unq gb hfr > > na > > > bayvar pbairegre ;-) > > >If you're all going to communicate in Welsh, you could at least sing it. And >wear those policeman hats. Nid wyt ti ddim in ysgrifennu Cymraeg - Yr wyt ti'n ysgrifennu yn cod! (Hmmm... writing in cod. How appropriate for a feglist) James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:11:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: D'oh! (was: Re: billboard boxed set article) Rex wrote: > Or maybe I should read all the list traffic before I bet anything. > > So where are the missing solo records? With the prawns? I'm guessing a third, as yet unannounced box next summer or something. Or maybe the Invisible Hitchcock and You and Oblivion material is being absorbed into the bonus disc material; I think one of the stories said something about GD being available as download-only at the same time as the first box, but I wouldn't think that would be it for GD, but maybe it is. Since Matador only did Underwater Moonlight, maybe Yep Roc will do A Can of Bees and Invisible Hits too somewhere in here. Yep Roc was able to license the Billy Bragg stuff from Elektra so there would appear to a model for Yep Roc and Universal to set up an arrangment for the A&M albums, but who knows. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:18:58 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: COMCAST description for Sex, Food, etc. . . . A profile of British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, celebrated for his darkly comic songs. (2007), (Documentary). ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:59:53 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: D'oh! (was: Re: billboard boxed set article) On 8/8/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > So where are the missing solo records? With the prawns? > > I'm guessing a third, as yet unannounced box next summer or > something. Or maybe the Invisible Hitchcock and You and Oblivion > material is being absorbed into the bonus disc material; I think one > of the stories said something about GD being available as > download-only at the same time as the first box, but I wouldn't think > that would be it for GD, but maybe it is. Looks like it actually slips out in December, in digital-only form, between the boxes. Orphaned again... despite Robyn saying he feels good about his back catalog in the article, he's just never gonna warm up to that record,and seems to be still trying to bury it after all these years. Maybe GD will be a pre-order digital bonus LP, even. Suddenly I have the unfamiliar urge to digitize my Groovy Decoy from vinyl and get back to the first form in which I heard it... Well, these are going to be cool. Hardly definitive and strangely bundled, but it's gonna be fun picking through 'em. Maybe the most exciting thing is the idea of the rarities disc in the Egyptians box... ...and I guess we have a few months to decide whether these are going into iTunes by their original titles, or as "I Wanna Go Backwards Disc 1: BSDR" and so forth. Oh, the geeky librarianosity of the anticipation, or vice-versa... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:10:31 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines Rex sez: >>Michael Sweeney >>...and, rather than the "Big Love" music, I much prefer the three "Big" >>songs from "CW": "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)," "Big Business," >>and "Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)" > >On the latter... sometime around Byrne's solo self-titled album (the >third one?), but before I'd acquired the Catherine Wheel soundtrack, >he appeared on Letterman and did that song, and I was blown away at >the "return to form". But I couldn't find anything on the album track >list that looked like it was that song, so I shied away... finally >found the wonderful Catherine Wheel soundtrack a few months later, so >I found the song, and simultaneuosly thought, whoa, Byrne has a new >record to promote, but he goes on Letterman and does a ten-year-old >obscurity? Even HE must be bored by his new stuff. I've seen that in other cases on Letterman (Buffett doing "Come Monday," Lindsey doing "Big Love," among others) and I've always assumed that Dave requested the oldie specially (in fact, I know that to be the case on the Buffett song, since he mentioned it)...Could be something similar with Byrne - -- or maybe he just wanted to lure concertgoers / CD-buyers with something they hadn't likely heard before, but sounded prime-era Heads-ish (as it were)... >But the impact of Talking Heads on my life, and their >just-plain-greatness at their sustained peak, is pretty undeniable, >slobbering fools with speech defects aside. Oh yeah, not to diminish the overall impact of Teh Heads, since the run of "'77" through "Remain" -- plus "CW" and the DB/Eno record -- is stellar...it's just that Byrne's noodling since is, to me, sorta like Robbie Robertson's post-"Last Waltz" output: not very often, kinda spotty (with flashes of brilliance), and in no way properly indicative of their previous track record (tho', in RR's case, the songwriting had tailed off a bit on the last few Band records BEFORE the Waltz...). >Number one most wished-for reunion. ...Eh, Byrne remains too much of a martinet dilettante and the other three (more than rightly, I figure) see themselves as more than DB's mere backing ensemble. Tension is good for interesting music (see: Lou vs. Cale); near-spitting hatred, not so much (see: latter-day Eagles, the many Van Halen / Roth attempts (with another one disastrously scheduled for a shed near you soon), and, greatest-hits-tour aside, Sting, Stew, & Andy)... Michael Sweeney ...Not to even mention Simon just flat out erasing Garfunkel's vocals off of 'Hearts and Bones' and deciding to remain a solo act instead of re-elevating the highest-billed harmony singer (prior to John Oates) back to partner status... _________________________________________________________________ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:38:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: D'oh! (was: Re: billboard boxed set article) Rex wrote: > ...and I guess we have a few months to decide whether these are > going into iTunes by their original titles, or as "I Wanna Go > Backwards Disc 1: BSDR" and so forth. Oh, the geeky > librarianosity of the anticipation, or vice-versa... Based on what I did with the Bragg boxes, I can safely say it'll by BSDR, IODOT, E, and whatever that name for the bonus discs was. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:48:24 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Cope-ing in NY, circa 1995 My friend John posted the photos he took at the Cope show in 1995, where he shared a joint with Julian: http://www.flickr.com/photos/64639055@N00/sets/72157601306302917/ ...and the NY Times article about the show: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9901E7D71439F932A25752C1A963958260 - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:22:20 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines - -- Michael Sweeney is rumored to have mumbled on 9. August 2007 03:10:31 +0000 regarding Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines: > ...Not to even mention Simon just flat out erasing Garfunkel's vocals off > of 'Hearts and Bones' and deciding to remain a solo act instead of > re-elevating the highest-billed harmony singer (prior to John Oates) back > to partner status... I'd never heard of that! Was it really supposed to be a Simon & Garfunkel record?? I still haven't sold my ticket for The Police. Currently the eBay price level is below the cover charge, but there are still 2 months to go. But if the price level doesn't rise I guess I'll go myself, even though I'm wary. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:49:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Michael Sweeney is rumored to have mumbled: > > ...Not to even mention Simon just flat out erasing Garfunkel's > > vocals off of 'Hearts and Bones' and deciding to remain a solo > > act instead of re-elevating the highest-billed harmony singer > > (prior to John Oates) back to partner status... > > I'd never heard of that! Was it really supposed to be a Simon & > Garfunkel record?? At one point, yeah, as it was recorded in the aftermath of their first reunion; the concert in central park and all that. Everything I've ever heard has it more that Garfunkel didn't like that the songs were all too personal and there were none for him to be the lead vocal and Simon was really insistant on this group of songs since they were what he wanted to do and then after all the fighting about the album, Simon _THEN_ wiped Garfunkel's vocals. It was more of an inevitiable result of trying to force a S&G album out of material that was really a Paul Simon solo album all along (and listening to it, I find it really hard to imagine much of it really working as S&G myself). If they'd had the good sense to see that those songs could never really make a S&G album going in, Art could have just thrown a few harmonies on here and there, and it wouldn't have been the huge drama it was and those harmonies might have survived. Of course, the two of them have always seemed to function as semi-dysfunctional brothers, which is only semi-proper for two guys who idolized the Everly brothers so much. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #287 ********************************